Techniques and Dao

Chapter 164 The Safe
Upon seeing a way out of the enchanted forest, Jane was overjoyed and immediately ran towards the car with Mie Ying.

Hua Sheng followed them for a few steps, a sense of inexplicable doubt rising in her heart.

He didn't step out the door, but stopped and looked back into the house.

He recalled the strange dream he had just had of turning into a child.

Why are you and that child both in this similar wooden house?

Who are the man and woman wearing masks?

If those memories weren't my own, then whose memories had wandered into my mind? Had I traveled into some other scene?
Besides, where did the clothes of that family of three in the cabin come from, and why did they suddenly disappear? Were they guests in this cabin in the jungle? Were they the same family from that strange dream? And where are they now?
If all of this was just a scenario designed by the white mage to play that death game, why would he bother to do these irrelevant things?
Hua Sheng didn't know the answer, but she felt a strange sense of familiarity about the scene in the dream, as if the dream was connected to something.

His intuition told him that he had seen some... truth.

The reason it is difficult to distinguish is that several things are involved, which makes them emit completely different images.

It's like when multiple colors of paint are mixed together; although you can see the mixed color, it's difficult to distinguish which colors were originally present.

Is it polluted?
For some reason, the word popped into his mind again.

Tianjizi once mentioned the pollution of the immortal array during the Tianmu Trial.

A magical array can be corrupted. So, those currently within an array set up by a white mage will also have their perceptions and the truths they see corrupted.

Many questions have now been answered. The scene of being corrupted in the immortal array of the Heavenly Eye Trial, and the scene that appeared in the Clever Box Game, is a cruise ship, a future apocalypse, and the ghostly old woman Wu Wang.

That was a connection between the memories of Mingyou Weiyu and Huasheng, intertwined for reasons he was unaware of. The design of the Heavenly Eye Trial ultimately resulted in a scene that resembled nothing at all.

Therefore, truths and scenarios can contaminate each other, making information blurred and difficult to discern.

When he looked back after knowing most of the answers, he could very clearly distinguish which "pigments" were mixed up.

But when surrounded by the fog, Hua Sheng could only guess.

His intuition told him that the existence of this house and even the details of its furnishings were by no means accidental!
It's even possible that none of the answers came from nowhere; all the answers were simply scrambled and then rearranged.

What happened in this scenario?
It wasn't just what happened just now; what the white mage did to the three of them was even more terrifying than what had just occurred.

The clues scattered everywhere were now in disarray. Hanamori couldn't make sense of them.

"Why aren't you out yet? What are you standing there for! Get out of here!"

An urging came from outside the door from Mieying Xiaoqi.

With a loud roar, Jane started the Ferrari's engine, as if urging Hanamoto to leave once again.

He himself wanted to leave this extremely uncomfortable room as soon as possible.

However, Hua Sheng knew that once he left, he would have no chance to find any more clues.

This would become a baseless "ghost wall" situation. He would never get an answer.

Thinking of this, Hua Sheng rushed back to the room where he had been tied up, as if possessed! He recklessly rushed back to the trap that had imprisoned him!
Even though the white mage could wake up at any moment, he couldn't care less.

The wooden walls that originally separated the room had been removed, but he could still vaguely make out the study and the bedroom. He tried hard to find the spot where the child in his dream was sitting.

He returned to where the child had been sitting, found the corner from his dream, and slapped the wooden wall!
The wall cracked instantly, and sawdust and lime were scattered all over the ground.

Behind this repainted wall, a worn-out old-fashioned safe was suddenly revealed!
Hua Sheng immediately got goosebumps.

This is the safe from my dream! The dream wasn't without reason; the safe is really here! Without hesitation, he crouched down and quickly turned the lock-picking compass on the safe!
"99, 12, 48!"

Following the numbers he read aloud, he entered the password and turned the rusty handle.

Geek!

He opened the safe!
The small, cramped space inside the safe was filled with stacks of materials. Some were bulging brown paper bags, while others were notebooks and photos with black covers.

Hana was shouting as she frantically searched for something.

"What is it! What are you looking for? What exactly are the child's parents hiding?!"

He grabbed the materials and quickly flipped through them; the papers were covered in strange writing. At first glance, they looked like pages full of words, but upon closer inspection, they were just blurry black blobs.

It's like a severely nearsighted person trying to read a newspaper from a distance without glasses.

He rubbed his eyes; the words on them were still completely unclear.

Hanamori opened the black notebook again, but the situation remained the same. It was as if the information had been covered with a layer of frosted paper, making it impossible to read anything useful.

Looking at those photos again, they were all blurry and dim in color.

The entire safe was filled with this kind of cryptic writing and inexplicable materials.

Why did the two masked people in my dream want these materials?
The things are still here; the wall was damaged by Hua Sheng.

Were the materials they just took already, or are they here to collect them later?
Did what happened inside the house really happen? Or was it some kind of omen?

Hua Sheng stood frozen in front of the safe, utterly perplexed.

Suddenly, someone grabbed his arm!
It turned out to be Mie Ying behind him, grabbing his arm and shouting, "What are you standing there for? I've been calling you for ages, what are you trying to do with this pile of waste paper and garbage!"

As she spoke, Mieying dragged him out of the house. Hua Sheng was almost pulled out of the house by her, and then thrown onto the back seat.

Mieying sat in the passenger seat and slammed the door shut. The car sped away into the night.

Hua Sheng remained seated, motionless and lost in thought, until they reached the highway.

He kept asking, "Why? Why?"

Mie Ying turned around and shouted, "Stop acting crazy! You're always asking a million questions! I'm so annoyed!"

Jane asked with concern, "What's wrong with you? You were perfectly fine just now. Why are you all acting like you're sick?"

Hua Sheng then slowly replied, "This room wasn't just strange. I felt that something was hidden there."

Jane immediately replied, "It's probably a scene created by a magic circle, causing an illusion. You should know that many of those things are fake."

"No no no!"

Hua Sheng said "no" three times in a row, and continued, "I think there's something real hidden in that scene. Like that safe, like those numbers... 99, 12, 48. Just like what I saw in my dream when I was unconscious."

Mieying's tone was full of suspicion: "Huasheng, what are you doing? We escaped. Don't get hung up on that kind of mystical stuff."

Hua Sheng's tone quickened as he explained, "You might not understand. But for me, there's a strange coincidence here. The combination to that safe, 991248, is the number I got during the Heavenly Eye Trial!"

(End of this chapter)